Wednesday, October 24, 2012

• • •Atlas Shrugged Part II: The Strike: Film ReviewTodd McCarthy, Hollywood ReporterAtlas Shrugged movie|Atlas Shrugged|Capitalism|Egoism|With nothing going for it other than a sincere but lukewarm representation of Ayn Rand’s 1,000-page dramatic manifesto about the glories of unfettered self-interested enterprise and the evils of government interference, this middle portion of an intended trilogy will only play to the converted who have already seen Part I, and then only to the most gullible among them who will swallow mediocre filmmaking for the sake of ideology. With one exception, an entirely new cast does this follow-up no favors. Box office, which for the first one started auspiciously and then wilted, looks even less promising, as no one who skipped Part I will come near this one.Published: 2012-10-12